Drivers to slow down, especially with all these people out on the roadway. To be clear, oaklands slow streets is not to close any city streets, rather to limit traffic to locals only on certain residential streets and quarters. That means if youre driving in your own neighborhood, maybe getting a delivery to your home, those are okay, that is local only. This will apply to 74 miles of oakland streets, as you mentioned. Thats 10 of the citys roadways. Were taking this opportunity to try some new things. Oaklanders are very anxious right now, and really trying hard to adjust to a radically different reality. And we hope that this slow streets movement will help give some joy, some recreation, some exercise, in a safe and physically sdadistanced way to oakland families throughout the city. Reporter if you drive on a slow street without knowing it, you will not get a ticket at this point. This is an education campaign. But a city councilman is urging the sheriff to crack down on speeding a
York and about the same number of cases. While california now has more than 17,000 infections, new york has 8 times that many kron fours gayle ong talks with that ucsf doctor about californias aggressive steps to flatten the curve. From the grand princess cruise ship docked in the bay carrying copa 19 patients last month. To facebook canceling its conference in february for signals to take the coronavirus pandemic seriously people are looking at california as a Success Story and seeing what it is that we did that seem to have work we spoke with doctor bob wachter chair of ucsf department of medicine who has been vocal about california showing early signs of flattening the curve everybody took it seriously and said even though. We havent seen many cases here we believe that we believe the science were going to stay at home and do the right thing its been almost 3 weeks since governor Gavin Newsome issued the first statewide stay at home and 8 in the country in his Daily Briefing governo
Stimulus checks are heading to Bank Accounts starting today. The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 6 people and infected other another 85 a to nursing home facilities in alameda county. We begin our coverage with that story can see huge outbreak is very concerning kron 4 Sarah Stinson is in San Francisco with the details. You guys very concerning especially i mean can you imagine for the family members you know have someone there at the 2 separate Nursing Homes that have had coronavirus outbreaks still very developing situation over there as the only the county Health Department or to help us staff get through this with resources as well take a look at your screen we put all the details for you on there where you can see the numbers there at least 59 people have tested positive for coronavirus at gateway care and rehab center in hayward 24 Staff Members and 35 residents of the 35 residents 6 have died each then at east bay postacute in Castro Valley 17 employees and 9 residents have
Within 2 weeks one of the forecasters said to me we were looking at a Freight Train coming across the country were now looking at a bullet train because the numbers are going up that quickly the u. S. President though is more optimistic saying he hopes to have the virus under control by east. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but will when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make it a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony felt she has downplayed the president s timeline. Thats really very flexible we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day but youve got to be very flexible and on the on it literally day by day reply week basis you need to ev
Now, your health, your safety, this is abc7 news. Quiet, empty streets all around the bay area because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now this morning new confirmed cases and counties are going farther to ban large gatherings. Good morning, its sunday, march 15th. Im liz kreutz. There are more coronavirus by the hour. But we want to start with a quick look at the weather. Heres abc7s lisa argen. Good morning. Its a level one. We had good downpours this morning. Its been chilly but a possibility with colder air moving in, thunderstorm later on today. Lets get to live doppler 7. You can see the big twist in the atmosphere. Theres the low sirnking south. And the east bay has been particularly lucky with downpours from kensington to 580, highway 4 martinez and look at the downpour here from daly city, marin county tonight north it is a rain snow mix where we thought this would happen. Check out the diablo range. Looking at pink and purple, meaning it is snow coming down. Fremont and sunnyval